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Yes BananaBoat the Mairangi Bay outflow is going strong, it smells like ice cream down our way. The treated  flows are released at full tide and head out to Tiri, anyway they test the water and it passes the tests, the turds from Parnell are a different kettle of fish. 
The combined storm water and sewage pipes of old inner Auckland have spilled their guts for years every time it rains, but this latest debacle is the cherry on top, I'm sure Mr Brown is onto it. Despite all that it was good to be out fishing, I must try it again some time...
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Good to see you getting out off bays again Dave. 
I’ve been boat fishing bit further north of late, kawau and little barrier, in mates’ boats, and been finding quite a few nice fish. Last weekend was good off kawau in over 40m, no milky fish, even got a nice reef snap off motoketekete in close.
Kayak been getting dusty in garage, really need to get out there and see if going to gym lots has made me any faster. Out tomorrow and got to be at Omaha ramp by 5am, as likely to be quite a crowd going out from there tomorrow.
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There was a nice window for the yak this morning, I got out to my spot before 7:00am and a large kahawai jumped right out of the water in front of me, it was a nice welcome, there were no boil ups or birds to be seen, but they soon woke up and it was on, I wasn't able to keep up, they covered quite a few miles going from Kennedy Park to Mairangi, my fitness was near shot by the time I got to my spot, still it was good to see some life. I had the few fish I wanted by 7:30am but stayed out and caught and released a dozen more.

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Originally posted by Hard Yakker Hard Yakker wrote:

There was a nice window for the yak this morning, I got out to my spot before 7:00am and a large kahawai jumped right out of the water in front of me, it was a nice welcome, there were no boil ups or birds to be seen, but they soon woke up and it was on, I wasn't able to keep up, they covered quite a few miles going from Kennedy Park to Mairangi, my fitness was near shot by the time I got to my spot, still it was good to see some life. I had the few fish I wanted by 7:30am but stayed out and caught and released a dozen more.

Each to their own I supopse, but stayed out and caught a few more and released them why??  This is something I totally disagree with. Why risk hurting fish when you dont require them.I understand releasing as per law when undersize but just for sport. Sorry I really disagree.
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Why catch and release fish? I had a free morning where I could go fishing, I like soft baiting with 6kg line, it's fun and I find it a challenge.
 I caught all of my fish today in 10-12m with Zman curly tails, with a 3/8 weight and a number 3 hook, the fish all swam away, many were flicked off at the side of the yak, some held upside down with a wet rag to have the hook removed.
 Catching and releasing fish in deep water is dangerous to the fish: barotrauma kills, as can swallowing baited hooks, but soft baiting in up to 12m is comparatively gentle on the fish, all of the fish I released swam away strongly, none with injuries that I could see, for those that like sport fishing soft baiting appears to be a clean form of it, I'm open to any evidence to the contrary.
In regard to my fishing ethics, I'm happy to just go with what is legal, however the snapper are about to spawn so I just take a few a week at this time...but do commercial fishermen or the customers at supermarkets or restaurants consider this? Dunno.

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Originally posted by Hard Yakker Hard Yakker wrote:

Why catch and release fish? I had a free morning where I could go fishing, I like soft baiting with 6kg line, it's fun and I find it a challenge.
 I caught all of my fish today in 10-12m with Zman curly tails, with a 3/8 weight and a number 3 hook, the fish all swam away, many were flicked off at the side of the yak, some held upside down with a wet rag to have the hook removed.
 Catching and releasing fish in deep water is dangerous to the fish: barotrauma kills, as can swallowing baited hooks, but soft baiting in up to 12m is comparatively gentle on the fish, all of the fish I released swam away strongly, none with injuries that I could see, for those that like sport fishing soft baiting appears to be a clean form of it, I'm open to any evidence to the contrary.
In regard to my fishing ethics, I'm happy to just go with what is legal, however the snapper are about to spawn so I just take a few a week at this time...but do commercial fishermen or the customers at supermarkets or restaurants consider this? Dunno.

Fair enough. Enjoy your reports though. Having lived around the bays area during the 70/80s,fishing has defiantly improved from those days.
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Dave / HY is very ethical.. he got slightly upset when we got a few little kahawai in my bait net a few years ago.. I wasn’t  happy or pleased either (would have preferred yems or piper)  but he was really concerned, even when I explained the dead ones we couldn’t release  made great snapper baits.
Dave fishes hard off bays for sure but stays well within his limits. One of best fishos I know and absolutely ethical and feeds his neighbours as in shares fish. 
I catch the odd marlin and always try too let em go. i have thought about it a while why I still do it , but I really love sport of fishing (I would object strongly if we were catching and releasing cats) , and I really prefer smoked snapper and kings over smoked marlin, but I like tricking and releasing marlin.
By the time you read this post birds will be singing and Dave will likely already been fishing again catching few more fish as we can now do again since the rahui was lifted.
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By the time I read this post.haha my day starts midnight so it's break time now.Amazing how well the bays are fishing compared to when we fishing along there late 70/80s. I guess most just go Rangi/motutapu/tiri.might have launch okahu bay and give it crack.. Wasn't knocking him as such Enjoy his posts.
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To she… that’s an impressive reply 
Yeah the bays still fish good but I was very concerned re sewage spill and fish a bit with a watercare guy. 
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I would have thought it would fished pretty good in 70s and 80s . I’ve fished here for the last 35 yrs off bays. In those 35 yrs I’ve been fishing in small boats, kayak, and landbased, and it has been fantastic. Seen odd 20 lber  and some nice kings come off my local. Even seen both caught off rocks. Got a few legal kings myself off rocks  and best snapper 20lb off Toroa Pt in boat,  but  saw  20lber off rocks at campbells by a mate about 10 yrs ago. Was bigger one 27lb taken off campbells bay beach a few yrs ago by a surfcaster.
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A seal has been knocking around Campbells for the last couple of days, he or she was in close, but I kept my distance, seals have the same sculls as bears, this one was after bait fish I'd guess, I saw a few big schools on the sounder, fish of some description, but they weren't interested in my soft bait, could have been little fellows.
I got lucky with the wind today I got out to my mark to begin a drift just as the water glassed out around 10:00am, so I didn't use my drogue all day. There were small boil ups around my yak for much of the morning, but there were no birds, I'd guess the the boil ups were small kahawai after white bait, but I didn't catch one so I'm not sure. 
The snapper had prawns and Mantis shrimps in their stomachs, I just took a few for the week.
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Nice work Dave. Sounds like nice day out and fish for dinner. Must join you soon. Seals are so cool.. Shane

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Pick a nice day Shane when it's flat and the old Prowler goes like a rocket, we get one or two a month...here's a refresher:
drag yak to water, kick off and paddle for 30mins, throw line in water, reel in fish, repeat until voices in head advise otherwise.
Remember, the good medicine from paddling into the wind and waves without even seeing a fish has its effect the next day, when the pain settles down, so more yakking more medicine...your welcome.
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The fish weren't biting on my soft baits today, the water was a bit dirty and the moon phase was poor, that and a 10kt wind on the back of my head made me work for my dinner.
Things were so slow that when I foul hook a 20cm Kahawai, I put it out for a bit of action  as a livie, after about 10min something took it, it was about 4ft long but it wasn't a snapper, it was my old mate the hammerhead, which is why I hardly ever fish with bait at this time of the year. The only thing worse than this bloody hammerhead, was a dude hooning it on a jet sky while blasting out Rap music at 110db, now if the hammerhead had got in this guys path that could have been two problems solved.
I didn't see any boil ups or birds today.
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I was out yesterday morning, the conditions were nice but the fishing poor, but there was one exciting moment, a huge boil up with only a couple of birds following went under and around me, it came from behind, and sounded like waves breaking, a lot of big arches showed up, but it was going very fast, it disappeared into the no fish zone and off to Takapuna or god knows where...but it was a lively moment in an otherwise unfishy day.
I finished with a gurnard and a few snapper, and had one hit that made the reel scream but spat the hook...
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The southerly was about 8kts this morning, but then it flattened out when the wind swung around. 
I brought my soft bait rod and a stick bait setup out: an Ugly stick with a Slammer 4500, 30lb braid and a 60lb trace. I've never caught a fish on a popper, but it's fun trying. I thought if I'm drifting around over summer and there's a boil up in front of me, the popper might do the trick. 
  I didn't have to wait long for the boil up, an almighty shower of little fishes jumped to escape something right next to my yak, so I flung my popper at them and whipped it about, if I catch a fish I'll know my youtube training is complete. I didn't get any hits but I'll bring it out again because it was fun. 
There were a lot of terns diving close in, and some big balls of bait on the sounder, but I don't know what they were, I didn't catch anything.
I caught my usual pannies and gurnard away from the boil ups, with a New Penny curly tail on a 3/8 bulb. A 40cm snap makes the reel sing, using a light drag and 12lb line, the sound doesn't get old.
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You keep casting, sooner or later a king will be there and take your lure Dave. Probably better option than livebaiting off here with so many hammers around in summer.
Looking to get out this coming week in yak as am still on holiday. Just got back from 3 days fishing at Tutukaka. My airbed I took had puncture so after 3 nights away and poor sleep came home early. I fished solo for 2.5 days… getting bit old for it. Did manage to hook 2 marlin on last day but both fell off which in hindsight probably saved drama of releasing them and still got hear reel sing and bit of surface commotion.
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I was chatting with a kayak fisherman on the beach this morning before I launched, he told me there were no keepers in the Bay at the moment, he had been out with his mates, some of whom know what they're doing, he said, anyway they had been using pilchards for bait. I encouraged him to try soft baiting. 
Whatever, it works for me, I caught the few pannies I wanted before 7:00am and I was home early to feed my two King fisher fledglings: Charles and Camilla, they've survived another day without being eaten by a cat, their mum wasn't so lucky, but these two like fish:)

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Nice Dave. I’m on baby sitter duty at moment. Been taking kids whose parents are working out to fish. Out locally. Had great day not too wide hand feeding some clever kings during week on Wednesday.  We’ve been catching odd one too but real cagey. Can’t buy bite off schools them even with livies. But there is a sliver lining to every story and mine today was snapper. Had four dead half medium size kahawai heads on 10/0  gamma hooks on 37kg trace taken , 30 lb braid mainline. 2 dropped, one busted offf was massive , one 14lber into bin , first take. Last one busted us off on nearby reef close to boat. Was a monsta!
Was fishing in 4m water. Was pretty insane fishing and a day to remember.
Out next two days , more kids tomorrow and wife on sunday who has already said, don’t fish our best spot too hard tomorrow.




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Bringing the kids brought the luck, a lot of eating there, nice fish.
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